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What equipment have you used over the past year?	Advantages	Disadvantages	What did I create with it? What features did I use?
Photoshop	Extremely good for image manipulation You can create different effects- different hair, eye, spots Range of tools and filters You can use the pen tool/ lasso tool to cut people out Layers You can change the brightness and contrast of your image You can create transparent images Good for downloading brushes You can change the colour of things Industry standard High resolution imagery  Manipulate text Drop shadows Polaroid pictures Strokes on fonts	Not good at dealing with lots of text You cant work on multiple page documents Complex to use You can not manipulate a single item if they are on the same layer Images can be too big	Cs6 Screen shots Front cover DPS Vampire Cross processing Christmas card Brushes Masthead When creating my front cover on Photoshop I added a Masthead which became one of the main focus points of my magazine cover. I decided to make this on Photoshop because I thought that it would be the easiest and most efficient way of doing it as I know that I would be able to make changes at a later date quickly and easily. Before u started creating my front cover I measured the magazine that I had analysed so that I could get the measurements for my cover. I had to enter these measurements into Photoshop before I started to create my product. When creating my Front cover I used several layers, text boxes, shapes, this allowed me to get my product to look the way I desired. My photos were not as bright as I would have likes so I used the brightness and contrast to adjust this so that it looked the way that I desired. I also created a Christmas card, when doing this I used brushes. I downloaded these onto Photoshop, this enabled me to add badges, small Christmas images and different brush effects to make my card look professional. This was easy to do since it was my first time using downloaded brushes on Photoshop. . I decided to make a square card so I had to enter the correct measurements before I started on my card.  When creating this as well as adding the brushes I changed the background colour and made the card the shape that I desired. I then went on to add the brushes changing the colours to get the effect I wanted for my card.
InDesign	Good with text unlick Photoshop You can view all pages on one document Good at allowing you to control your text Column guides Link text Drop caps Lending and curving of font Text wrap You can export it as a PDF Good at creating page design Can create shapes on it	Not very good with imagery Complicated to use (industry standard) You have got to learn how to use it- not so straight forward Crashes easily	Cs6 I created two DPS documents in InDesign one was for a trial so I could work out how to use the software and the second was the final DPS for my product. Before I started to create the product I had to set the size for the document, I measured the DPS that I was analysing and used the same measurements for my own DPS. When using InDesign I created several text boxes so I could insert my article. I linked the text boxes together so that my article would flow threw out. After I had done this I inserted my picture, I found it difficult to get the picture behind the text because of the text wrap tool. Once I had overcome this I found it easier to use InDesign to make further changes. I found that InDesign crashes a lot when you are using it so I kept saving the document as new copy to ensure that I did not lose any work.
Cannon 350d	Automatic and manual settings Zoom- 55mm 8 mega pixels Range of different functions Shutter speed can be changed Aperture Continuous shoot mode Allows you to change the ISO setting Change the white balance setting Self timing Can store images on USB card	Expensive Big and bulky Aperture and shutter speed settings don’t have a massive range 8mega pixels isn’t a very high pixel capacity relatively complicated to use	Front cover Shutter speed Composition pictures
Other cameras, Iphone 5	Light Can store lots of photos Can edit photos Grid High quality pixels Easy to get your pictures of your phone	Resolution may not be brilliant Basic settings	I regularly take photos on my phone, if I am taking a photo outside sometimes I use the grid available on my phone this allows me to see what section of the photo is going to be the main attraction.  I also use the panorama option of my phone. This allows you to capture a photo on a larger scale. It allows you to expanded the view that your normal camera can capture giving you a wider picture.
Arrilite continuous lighting	Easy to use Good at allowing to see what the light is going to be like on the photo Don’t need to use a flash meter reading Can put different colour gels in front of them Spot lights	Extremely hot Make people look yellow/ orange Not industry standard	I used this in my photo-shoot to brighten the room so that my photos became as bright as possible. It was easy to set up and adjust so I could change the lighting depending on my photo, it was also easy to move around so I could change the height depending on the location of my model. When I was moving the Arrilite I found that I got very hot very quickly. This made it harder to move because it was to hot to hold. Therefore an easy job became difficult, all because of the heat. It also made it difficult for my model to stand in front of it for a long period of time because it made the photography studio hot and un comftable.
Bowens flash lighting equipment – discuss softboxes/umbrella fill lights	Industry standard They don’t have a orange/ yellow hue Not hot Can use gels an filters with them You can have complete control over the lighting Higher quality pictures Can create spot lights Can move them around relatively easy Can tilt them easy	Have to use a flash meter reading to set up lights correctly Complicated to use Time consuming
Reflectors	Portable Allow you to illuminate certain parts of the model Can get different colours	Quite bulky Easy to break
Lastolite paper backdrops	Come in a range of colour Crease free Disposable Easy to set up	Expensive Gets dirty quickly Tear easy Heavy and large to set up	When doing my photo shoot I used the white backdrop. I decided on this because I wanted my photos to be as light as possible. The only problem that I found with the white background was the dirt on the floor. Every time my model moved the white backdrop got dirty, this showed up when I was taking my photos. Luckily I was able to get rid of this on Photoshop.
Fabric backdrops	Light Cheap Reusable Come in a range of colours	Creased Long washing process

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